Freedom Isn't Free

Found somewhere on the web, very appropriate for the day:

I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.

I heard the sound of taps one night,
When everything was still
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.

Before joining the liberal bandwagon, bashing operations to protect you and your freedom, like pea-for-brains Nancy Pelosi, the worst person my state of California has contributed to the ranks of elected officials, think the lives put on line to protect your right to speak your mind freely.

I hope you had a great memorial day weekend. Some of your fellow citizens in far away lands could certainly not...

posted by Legal Alien @ 5:26 AM

Say no to 1A thru 1F on May 19, 2009

People of California, isn't it time to say stop to the crooks in Sacramento yet ? Haven't they dipped into your pockets, on behalf of the special interest groups they represent enough ? Now this new scheme to make you believe prop 1A (on May 19, 2009 special election) will curb spending. What they do not tell you is, it will extend the newly imposed "temporary" tax hikes for two more years. Reason ? To create a rainy day fund. Yeah "rainy day fund" my ass. The first thing if, god forbid, 1A gets approved, is, tecahers' union is going to dip into the rainy day fund to fill up their coffers first per prop. 1B. Why ? Because there were cuts in the order of billion(s) which they feel they were entitled to but not given.

With the housing market in dumps, 1 out of every 10 people on the street is out of work, tax hikes is the last thing you want to do. If you want more people to leave the state to hang it out to dry without any tax dollars that they are contributing, go right ahead. I am on the next plane out. But if you want people with a little bit of brains to stay in California, say no to all of these scams, across the board.

posted by Legal Alien @ 10:53 AM

Say NO! to CA prop 93

I know I haven't been posted for a long time and late for the elections game but more I listen to and read about this Prop. 93 scam that Mexican Nunez and Crook Perata are putting forward, more I get disgusted with Sacramento politicians. I think by now everyone heard about how Nunez shakes down his campaign contributors for his lavish lifestyle, expensive trips to Europe and all; Or you must have heard the FBI raids on the Crook Perata's residences. Now that out turncoat governator took his place among with the happy couple, there is not an iota of doubt in my mind that CA is doomed if these people are in power one way or another. Do you really want to keep these people managing you the decent Californian, for another 6 years ? I sure don't.

Say No to Prop 93 on Feb 5th and get rid of the leeches off your back and get rid of the stupid smirk off their faces.

posted by Legal Alien @ 1:37 PM

Press one for English, 2 for Spanish

This is my pet peeve. When I call a customer service department of any public company, I have to make a selection, or even worse, if I want service in English, I have to wait until the Spanish babble ends, which is no shorther than 10 seconds.

Hello !!! Since when this country has a second official language that everyone has to know to get anything done. As far as I know, the only official language of the US of A, is English. If you, mr or mrs Mexican villager, do not want to or not willing to learn English, at least to get by, go back to Mexico, where you do not need to know any English at all.

If you have ever been to France, you know what I am going to tell you the first hand. If you need help, you had better be ready to try speaking a little French. Otherwise you will not get anywhere fast. All the French men and women I encountered with, are of pretty good skills with English language, but unless you want to show an effort to communicate with them in their official language, they will ignore you. Why can't US be a little like those guys ? Are we so afraid of political correctness bullshit ?

posted by Legal Alien @ 2:13 PM

Is it so hard to do a decent job ?

Couple of weekends ago, I asked the guys who do landscaping for my next door neighbor, if they want to do a small job for me. The job was to haul the fill dirt sitting on my driveway to the flowerbeds in the back yard. They said if I have a wheelbarrow and shovels, they'd do it. I had shovels and went to Lowes and got a wheelbarrow and came back. Two dudes, around the age of 20, worked about 4 hours and the job was done. Or so I thought. I paid them $200 and they went. Last week when I am moving grass, I noticed a hole around 18 inches in diameter, around one of the sprinkler risers. Could not understand what it was and cursed the ground squirrels, even though it did not look like their job.

Come sunday, I am sitting on the back yard deck and the sprinklers in the flower beds came on. Curiously, the one with a hole around it was not sprinkling at all. I went to check what the problem was. As soon as I touched the riser, it came off. The only thing holding it in place was the dirt around it. Otherwise the jerks who moved the dirt, broke the god damn sprinkler and did not bother to tell me.

Now, I need to flush out the sand out of the whole sprinkler section connected to this pipe, as I am sure the fine, sandy fill dirt has reached god knows where. I hate people who think that they can scam their ways through life.

posted by Legal Alien @ 11:51 AM

Be a Border Patrol agent, defend yourself and go to jail

posted by Legal Alien @ 8:41 AM

Evolutionary Biology disappears from approved federal list.

We all know that, president Bush is trying to appease the religious kook crowd as the election nears, mysteriously, one of the largely disputed parts educational system, i.e., the evolution theory, accidentally disappeared from the list of majors(pdf document) that low income students can get a grant for. Education deprtment people say, this is just a clerical omission but the timing of this omission is very curious.

posted by Legal Alien @ 3:08 PM

Speaker of Assembly Fabian Nuñez is obviously unfit for his position

It obviously was an ordinary day and newpaper reportes were going to go home empty handed from the assembly meeting, when this jerk, whose picture is to the right of this post, tried to sneak in a resolution, asking Washington DC to stop all immigration laws, which is in the works, which criminalize people who came into this country illegaly, mainly his compadres from the south of the border. When his shameful ploy was caught by Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, the jerk who did not show up for the assembly meeting but sent his proxy instead, showed up and wanted to pull the resolution back. When Spitzer objected, the argument obviously turned into a monologue of expletives uttered by Nuñez, including the "F" word.

Dude, you are the representative for the people of USA not Mexico. If you have a desire to support the causes of Mexican fools, go south of the border and run for Vicente Fox' replacement. Then you can tell your reconquista friends to cross the border for a better life and nobody like me chastize you.

Don't like what you read ? Well, up yours !...

posted by Legal Alien @ 1:58 PM